Tis isn't a shot at you or MP. When you hear a lot of different things from the people involved and then in the next breath they say they wanted to play in a different market, you have to wonder what is true. Tkachuk wasn't a bridge contract as much as a setup to get paid. He claims that he wanted a long term deal, but what was available in cap and what you could pay the guy short or long term may have been at odds. Gaudreau was the linchpin in this, so that is more how much we were wanting to committ to after a bad season. The summer before his last season. It's old news but the walking put Tkachuk in the driver's seat.
Monahan is one of those things I doubt we will ever understand. If you listened to JG, he shouldn't have played that season at all. Was March any less right than October? He was itching to play and shutting him down would have been a big blow to him. Who knows. A doc has a duty to inform and they are not supposed to make it worse.